Senator and the Sharecropper The Freedom Struggles of James O. Eastland and Fannie Lou Hamer

Name: Senator and the Sharecropper The Freedom Struggles of James O. Eastland and Fannie Lou Hamer
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ISBN: 9781595583321

ISBN-10: 1595583327

ISBN-13: 9781595583321

Edition: 2008

Authors: Chris Asch

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The epic struggle for black equality in the twentieth century, told through the deeply intertwined life histories of the staunch segregationist and his sharecropper nemesis. The Senator and the Sharecropperis the story of two larger-than-life personalities from one humble corner of the Mississippi Delta: the senator, James O. Eastland, a fabulously wealthy cotton planter and one of the most powerful figures in the U.S. Senate, and the sharecropper, Fannie Lou Hamer, who grew up desperately poor a few miles from Eastland's plantation. During Eastland's long tenure as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, he ruthlessly and effectively bottled up civil rights legislation on Capitol…

Book details

List price: $27.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: New Press, The
Publication date: 5/1/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 384
Size: 6.35" wide x 9.50" long x 1.14" tall
Weight: 1.518



Prologue: Sunflower County, 1994



Sunflower County, 1904



Planter's Son, Sharecroppers' Daughter



"Cotton Is Dynamite": New Deals in Sunflower County



"An Enormous Tragedy in the Making": Revolutions in Sunflower County and Abroad



"From Cotton - to Communism - to Segregation!": The Senator's Rise to Power



"No One Can Honestly Say Negroes Are Satisfied": The Sharecropper Embraces the Movement



1964: Confrontations



"This Is America's Sickness"



"The Pendulum Is Swinging Back"



"Right on Back to the Plantation"


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Index